THE GREATEST SECRET REVEALED

BY THIS HE MEANT

Whoever believes in Me...

streams of living water will flow from within him.

John 7.37-39

The "secret" of the Christian life is in the flow of the grace of Jesus Christ from the Holy Spirit into our hearts and out of our lives.

This "flow" from the Holy Spirit takes place as we "abide" in and with Christ.

I am the vine and you are the branches.

If a man remains in Me and I in HIm, he will bear much fruit;

apart from Me you can do nothing.

John 15.5

This "abiding" is to take place continuously, just as vine pours life into the branch continuously. This is the same as "Pray without ceasing." For the Christian life to be what Jesus came to live and die for, we must give Him not just "top priority," but all priority.

"If any man will come after Me,

he must deny himself, and take up his cross daily,

and follow Me."

Luke 9.23

If we will dedicate the time to be with Christ and then follow His will for our life by faith, believe, trust, and obey in an abiding, continuous way, then the Holy Spirit will be able to bring the grace and glory into our lives continually. In this way we will be filled continually, growing wiser, stronger, and better day by day. As we grow we will bear more fruit, because we will be being filled with the Holy Spirit and His work within us so that we bear more and more of the fruit of this life in the form of love, joy, and peace and much, much more.

"Be filled with the Spirit."

Ephesians 5.18

If we are abiding in Christ, we will be being filled with the Spirit and we will be walking in the way the Holy Spirit leads us. He Holy Spirit will remove "dead" branches and dead works from our lives that we may produce more good fruit for the glory of Jesus.

If you walk in the Spirit,

you will not fulfill the desires of the sinful flesh.

Galatians 5.16

If we set our minds on what the Holy Spirit desires, we will live in accordance with what the Spirit desires, not what our sinful nature desires. If we set our minds of the things of Christ, the Holy Spirit will fill our hearts with the Glory of Jesus, and we will know the secret things of God in Christ.

"God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles

the glorious riches of this mystery,

which is Christ in you, the hope of glory."

Colossians 1.27

This glorious mystery, this secret of the Christian life is ours. We only have to ask and seek with all our hearts, and follow the doorways the Holy Spirit opens for us.